COLOR COORDINATES: Shari Carroll’s Purple
Happy Friday everyone!! It’s Shari here with a Color Coordinates set that I think you’ll enjoy.
One of my favorite two colors together is purple and green, a combination I don’t use it often, but it’s always been a favorite. For this Color Coordinates I started with those two and added in a few more to complete the look.
I totally experimented with inks to create this background. At first, I wasn’t sure if it would work… but it did! I used Yupo with the inks and blended them together with a blending tool and my finger, then added spritzes of rubbing alcohol. Yupo is an interesting synthetic paper that let’s the ink sit on top of the surface. Alcohol breaks down the ink so it can flow… resulting in this amazing marble effect.
Once I had my background, I die cut the Tim Holtz Wildflowers from white cardstock and added them to the background. Then I die cut “Love” from a Tim Holtz silver Deco sheet which is set onto a strip of black cardstock with the white embossed “You”.
I’m so glad I filmed this technique as I was experimenting so I could share it with you. You can watch the full process video below or on our YouTube channel HERE.
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Your card is fabulous!!
Gorgeous colors (some of my favorites) and when you use them, it gets my attention. Gorgeous card and I love the wild flower dies from Tim, one of my best purchases ever. Thanks for always inspiring.
Great card.
I love this card! Shari used all my favorite colors! Thank you
Like the wonderful artsy colors in the background.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
Beautiful colors! Thanks for the inspiration.
Beautiful color combination!
Stunning combination of colors & beautiful card! I worry about combining different shades of purple, but now I see it’s actually wonderful! Thanks for the inspiration!
Love these colors together!
WOW… this is gorgeous, Shari! The color combo is just gorgeous!
Fabulous color combo!
I wouldn’t have thought to combine this colors but it turned out wonderfully. Great card!
Awesome color combo and beautiful dies!
Purple is a beautiful color and this card is so pretty!
I really like the final effect on the Yupo. The card is, of course, gorgeous. Love it. It’s the Yupo that I find intriguing. I have some sheets of Yupo, but haven’t quite figured the best technique. I will definitely give this a try…it’s beautiful. Thanks so much.
Beautiful card!
Love these colours!
The colors are awesome.
Stunning card!
Simply stunning!
Inspired!!! Thank yo. :)
Pretty background! Thanks for sharing how it was made!
Such a beautiful color combo :)
Love this card! The colors are gorgeous in that artsy background.
Love those gorgeous colors and that beautiful card!
Such a Pretty and Colorful Card! Loved it!
Very pretty. I love that scuba colour.
Love the colors! Beautiful card!
I love Shari’s technique and I would love to try this myself! Gorgeous card and gorgeous colors!
Beautiful card with gorgeous colors. Thank you for sharing!
Beautiful. Before I saw this I just made a card with purple and green.
Great colors!
I love these colors together! I have some Yupo, and I appreciate the video – I haven’t tried it yet.
Did you use another cardstock to pick up the color from the stamp? I was wondering what that would look like.
Where would I be without the insight into card making? Always inspired to try new things.
Love it. I love to mess around and experiment and isn’t it fun when it turns out great like that?!?! Thanks for sharing this with us.
Beautiful card, I love your colourful BG :)
I am so going to do something with purple and green! LOVE IT!!!!
Fabulous colors, wow, need to try this. Stunning card!
Absolutely gorgeous blended background. Love it❤️
A beautiful, vibrant background. Love how the white wildflower silhouette looks against that.
Loving all of the the jewel tones!!!!
Beautiful color combo and background, great card!
Beautiful color combination! Thanks for sharing your experiments!
I LOVE that background and I’m so glad you were filming the process because I didn’t know that you could use distress inks on the Yupo paper. I have some and used it in class with the alcohol inks, but not with distress inks before and then to spray alcohol on top of it, awesome idea!!!! Now I can’t wait for my room to come out of storage and my new house to be done in another 6 weeks so I can play. Thanks for sharing all of those awesome new tricks :)
I LOVE that color combo, too…and your card! Beautiful!
What a really beautiful color combination!! Thanks for sharing with us.
Wow! It turned out gorgeous, Shari! LOVE this color combo!
Great technique idea! I love the look of the background! Thanks for the inspiration.
Beautiful colors.
This is a beautiful color scheme!! Love your creation!